I've just graduated from uni and it took my five years. Which IS a long time, but you never stop learning because there is always something new. And of course languages change all the time.

My next project is either Lithuanian or Uzbek.

And Patrick, You don't need to read the threads, never mind take time out of your day to complain about them. They're doing no harm.

I would really like to learn a different language. My husband and I were eating out last night and there were a group of people that came in speaking another language and it sometimes makes me wonder what these people are saying. Not that it is any of my business, I would just be curious, you never know, they might be planing to hold up the resturant or take down the waitress. Ha! Ha!

MRS Carb

Is Uzbek really easy? I dunno. I speak a bit of Czech too, so might be easier for me to study Lithuanian. But we'll see.

Thanks Lera, that is really sweet, but I don't have enough time right now to do it. Any of my extra time is either spent on here or practicing. (In which I need to do more of!)

Oh no! Please don't start another thread lol!

We could call this the foreign language thread! How many languages do we have here anyway?

Je ne sais pas. Je ne compte pas les langues. Pour votre information, ne ne parle pas russe, mais je peux lire l'alphabet un peu. Je l'ai utilisé quand nous avons été perdus en Russie.



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Zut.

C'est "Je ne parle pas russe," pas "ne." ;)

Vous avez ete perdues en Russie?! Pourquoi?

I also speak a little spanish, but it is not so great anymore. Ahh the joys of unuse and the things it will make you forget.

I know. I spent two years learning Czech. Haven't spoken it since April and now know NOTHING. NIC. NICHEGO NADA.

>>Vous avez ete perdues en Russie?! Pourquoi?<<

Since my French is rustier than a nail left in the dirt, I shall reply in English.

We took a cruise. One of the stops was St. Petersburg. The one morning we decided to "take a taxi into town." Hahaha. What taxi? So, we started to walk. We got lost. We had a map, but guess what? The street signs were in Cyrillic, and the map was the anglicized version. My husband made fun of me for studying some Russian before we went over there. He said, "You'll never learn enough to be of any use." Well, no, I didn't know enough to speak to anyone. But, I could read the signs. He couldn't. Hee hee hee.

Lera, do you mean Sign Language?

Took five years of french, never used it and basically lost it.

I live in the great southwest, so Spanish is very prevalent. I can read some, speak less and understand about the same level.

I know and use a very basic amount of sign language. Most of the kids I use it with are mentally challenged, so my vocabulary level could be characterized as being at the !****!ed level!

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Why did it bleep out r-e-t-a-r-d-e-d? There is nothing wrong with that word. It's a diagnosis.

Lera,
I agree, I don't care for "disability" either. I much prefer "challenged". I consider my kids "learning challenged" rather than "learning disabled".

The board has some wierd ideas about what to censor. I'd rather it censored nothing, that way we might have some clue what other people were talking about!

The word "retarded" is very much used as an insult in this country. It's not been acceptable for a long, long time to use it in a medical context.

To me, in British English "Challenged" sounds wierd. I'm sure that's not the case in American ENglish, but here it comes over as too PC.

So many difficulties with two so closely related languages.